After working at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell and jointly holding numerous patents on heat pipes and associated technology with power stations, Prof Peter Dunn joined the Department of Applied Physics in 1964 and started the Department of Engineering [1] at the University of Reading in 1968.
Peter Dunn started the world's first Master of Science Degrees in Renewable Energy in 1977.
[7] Gamos was proposed as an organisation to expand the work of the department in the combination of poverty alleviation and renewable energy.
Using the word related to hieros gamos but not drawing on its meaning, the organisation has enabling frameworks with the UK Department for International Development.
It has been cited by that agency as having been the eighth most active contractor within DFID's Engineering Knowledge and Research Programme.